[Building Sakai] Public access to a site

[Adam Marshall]

for what it's worth, we've added an option under Site Info > Manage Access for site owners to make their sites either totally public (.anon) or available to logged in users (.auth). We have chosen 'sensible' permissions for each of these roles and have disabled the ability for .anon to be given Create or Edit rights in most tools.

You do realise resources has the ability (by default) to make a file or folder totally public.

Adam

From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Balazuc Denis
Sent: 17 September 2009 19:27
To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: [Building Sakai] Public access to a site

Hello Sakai Dev

We are building a tool and one of the requirement is to be able to allow some of its sites's content to be accessible without any authentication from our users (a public read-only mode). I've read around that the common Sakai way to have a 'public' access usually requires that, at some point, the accessing user be registered (even automatically) as a user within Sakai.

However, we do not want that and we're looking for a functionality similar to the one found in the Wiki tool, with regards to the way it allows pages to be viewed publicly. (I started from this discussion: http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-dev/2009-March/000087.html)

I noticed that the Wiki tool provides a "/access/wiki/site/XXX URL" to do just this. It's precisely what we want to achieve but I cannot find a pointer to get me started on how to do the same thing.

Anyone has an URL or a document I can read to get me started with this ? Does it involves any modification to the tool or is it simply a matter of configuring/using the Access component?

Thanks a lot for any information.
Cheers


Denis Balazuc

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